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“Buy the truth, and sell it
not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.”
Proverbs 23:23 KJV
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Do You Really
Want To Know The Truth?

I
had spoken at a family conference and explained and illustrated
Bible truths about how a parent can “turn around” a rebellious teen.
A man came up to me and said, “How did you discover such amazing
truths?” I replied, “The Bible is the mind of man’s Creator revealed
to man. In the Bible God gave to man every key truth man would need
to live human life. Our difficulty is in receiving and believing ALL
of those truths. But each truth we believe opens up another set of
truths. And each one of those opens up another set, etc. etc.”
Many people
have HEARD truth, but they don’t HAVE truth. When the Bible says,
“Buy the truth, and sell it not” the emphasis seems to be that
you have to do whatever you have to do to make the truth yours.
Sadly, lots
of God’s truth isn’t popular. So what do people do with truth they
don’t like? They reject it. And they mock it! And they replace the
truth with error which deceptively looks like truth but will not
truly work to solve man’s problems. But they don’t just lose the
one truth they didn’t like. They also lose all the other truths they
could’ve had if they had not rejected the one truth they rejected!
One of the most
wonderful things about truth is this: Anyone who will receive it can
own it. There is jewelry I can look at but never own. But I can own
the truth if I will just “buy” it. If I will simply accept
and apply God’s truth, it can become my property.
I wonder how many
other truths man has lost since he has denied and mocked the
foundational truth of all other truths: “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Think about it.
If there is no accountability to the God who made us, then there is
no right and wrong. If there is no sin, there is no salvation from
sin. It is only a step from denying a Creator made us to denying
that Creator sent His Son Jesus to die for us.

It's
confusing and difficult to make an honest assessment on the
subject of how everything came into being. There are two
proposed ways of looking at it -- either everything was
created by a pre-existing being and was shaped by
intelligence, or the stuff everything is made of has always
existed and just takes on different forms by chance.

Community
action of some kind is commonplace inside most
churches. But for the first time in Lincoln, 11 churches --
and that number is anticipated to grow to more than 15 --
have banded together to create the campaign "Together for
Lincoln." This unified action will involve all participating
churches being committed to working together to serve the
community, from building wheelchair ramps to visiting the
homebound.

In America and
much of the world, absolute truth has been replaced by the
myth of situational truth. Situational truth allows the
circumstances at the time to dictate behavior or to be more
important than real truth.

Fond
memories remain of a young boy's weekly trek with his mother
to downtown Lincoln. This was before shopping centers. The
two of them would make their way around the square, which
then contained shops with every kind of item needed, ending
at the A&P grocery store.

An error in
judgment can result in a lifetime of regret. It isn't
required that there be any intentional harm to another in
order for us to carry sorrowful thoughts about our actions.
Each of us looks back at things we've done, and we wish for
just a moment in which we could have made a different
decision. If only we had thought more carefully about the
potential consequences. If only we had taken a slightly
different course.